Charles neu biography
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Essay by Charles E. Neu, Brown University, Emeritus
I was brought up in a small town in west-central Iowa, where my father was a lawyer and long-time mayor. He was a conservative Republican, critical of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; Charles Tansill’s Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, was his favorite book.[1] Politicians would seek him out in their travels across the state since he was a local opinion leader. In 1952, when I was a junior in high school, he encouraged me to support Senator Robert Taft for the Republican nomination and, after Taft’s loss to Dwight Eisenhower, he endorsed the Republican nominee and joined in the Republican campaign in Iowa. I heard Eisenhower speak in Boone, Iowa, and shook the great man’s hand as he moved down the aisle of a campaign train.H-Diplo Essay 387
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I was brought up in a small town in west-central Iowa, where my father was a lawyer and long-time mayor. He was a conservative Republican, critical of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and t
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Neu, Charles E(ric) 1936-
PERSONAL: Born April 10, 1936, in Carroll, IA; son of Arthur N. (a lawyer) and Martha (Frandsen) Neu; married Deborah Dunning (director of Providence Preservation Society), September 2, 1961 (divorced, July 14, 1978); married Sabina Dewerth Tuck, March 27, 1999; children: Hilary Adams, Douglas Bancroft. Education: Northwestern University, B.A. (with highest distinction), 1958; Harvard University, Ph.D., 1964.
ADDRESSES: Home—346 Rochambeau Ave., Providence, RI 92906. Office—Department of History, Brown University, 142 Angell St., Providence, RI 02912-9127. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: Rice University, Houston, TX, assistant professor, 1963-68, associate professor of history, 1968-72; Brown University, Providence, RI, associate professor, 1970-76, professor of history, 1976—, chairman of history department, 1995—. Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. Guest scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1988.
MEMBER: American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society for the History of American Foreign Relations.
AWARDS, HONORS: Younger Scholar fellowship from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1968-69; American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, 1975-76; Howard foundation f
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